Word: raced
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...almost every one knows, the N. Y. and N. E. R. R. have agreed to run, on the day of the race, a train of platform cars, furnished with seats arranged in tiers, from the start to the finish. The track runs along the bank of the Thames River, and there are only two or three points in the entire distance where trees or other objects shut out a view of the course. Each car will accommodate about eighty persons. Several cars have already been engaged by gentlemen from New Haven, and we earnestly advise our enterprising men to open...
...arrangements which have been made by the President of the H. U. B. C. with the N. Y. and N. E. R. R. for reduced rates between Boston and New London ought to satisfy all members of the University who wish to see the race. Tickets for the round trip, good for three days, June 27 - 29, will be sold for $3.50. If a sufficient number of names can be obtained a special train will leave Boston about 7 A.M. on the day of the race, and returning, will leave New London about 7 P. M. A book...
Watkins Glen. - This so-called "Grand Amateur Regatta" is now a matter of history, and the usual amount of fault-finding is going on over its body. As a test regatta it was undoubtedly rather a failure, although the crew that had been the favorite before the race won in each race; the failure consisting in the fact that not one of the crews which competed is now qualified to row as an amateur in England; indeed, Lee, the single-scull winner, has been under suspicion for some time in this country. The "Sewing-Machines," as they are called, proved...
...would be a sight worth travelling some distance to see. In stroke, style, and training they are exactly opposite to what the English rowing-men have always been taught to consider "good form." What they will think of a crew whose habitual stroke, even for a three-mile race, is 45, and who, on spurts, run up to 48 and 50 with ease to themselves; who are utterly without "form" of any sort; who set at defiance many of the traditional rules of training, and yet manage to carry their old 22-inch tub of a boat over three miles...
...last of all there was a race of three legs, which contest is of this sort: two youths being bound together as to their inner legs, endeavoring thus to run, fall on the ground many times, as is likely. And the race was won by two youths, more young and tender than their companions, and called by them Freshmen...